The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM Panel) has conducted a comprehensive assessment of the risks to animal health and transfer from feed to food of animal o [...]
In a bid to protect public health, the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) have initiated a nationwide data collection scheme to examine the levels of T-2 and HT-2 toxins in foodstu [...]
The European Commission has released its 2022 Alert and Cooperation Network (ACN) report, which encompasses the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), the Administrative Assistance and Cooperation networ [...]
A team of researchers from the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) has recently published a groundbreaking study that identifies mycotoxins that may be mutagenic a [...]
Wageningen University Food Safety Research has embarked on a four-year project to create an early warning system for detecting mycotoxins in European cereal grains. The project, named "Mycotoxin E [...]
The German consumer magazine Öko-Test has recently carried out some lab analysis on different brands of tomato ketchup and found worrying results in one of the most well-known brands, with alternariol well [...]
According to a new study, conducted by the University of Bath in collaboration with the University of Exeter, the harmful fungal infection known as Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) is on the rise across Europe, affec [...]
On August 8th was published the Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1370 of 5 August 2022 amending Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 as regards maximum levels of Ochratoxin A in certain foodstuffs. Ochratoxin A ( [...]
The European Commission has recently released its annual report of all the information shared in 2021 within the Alert and Cooperation Network (ACN), to which the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed network (R [...]
The European Commission has tightened rules around a type of mycotoxin in certain food products under Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/1399, applicable from the 1st January 2022. The limits have been established [...]
